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@gham1985 @TheJackArn @Cernovich

@TheJackArn @Cernovich The world just witnessed a beat down. And it's not Iran on it's knees. Your retarded leader Trump has left you looking weak and exposed. 17 military bases in 40day wiped off the map. Warning after warning ignored. Iran now controls the strait Americans are fuckin delusional.

We controlled Afghanistan. White guilt meant we didn’t rule it like a colony. We wage wars in the worst way possible. Either be Rome or don’t go over. Our military is unlike any other. You are a third worldist. I am an American Supremacist.

@BlackWordBound Japan has remilitarized, they just have a very narrow use for what they can do with it.

The fact that Germany was allowed to remilitarize and not Japan is not only an outdated framework, it's a massive liability for both the USA and Japan today Strong alliances are built by having strong allies

@virtusnobilitas @SandyofCthulhu There were more people than Ford, who was a well known anti semite before the war even started; and Bush responsible for rearming the Reich.

@Apelham8 @SandyofCthulhu Mais la mecanisation du reich par henry ford et les financements de preston bush de hitler et du NSDAP pour leur accession au pouvoir, est la decision à regarder en premier. Alors tu vas continuer à chier sur les morts. Je vais continuer à rappeler quelle race de vipére tu fais.

France suffers from this because of their poor performance in WW2. To be fair, if not for the Channel, Britain would absolutely have been overrun as well. As the "history guy" at Ensemble Studios I had to constantly fight against the "haw haw France always surrenders" jokesters. It helped that France before the Crimean War was pretty redoubtable. I'd point out that France fought all of Europe for 20 years under Napoleon, and for 14 years under Louix XIV. So that's obviously not a wimp. I insisted that we do Joan of Arc in Age 2, in part as an antidote to the fact that Americans who've heard of the Hundred Years War usually only hear about Crecy and Agincourt because Britain harps endlessly about those, rather than Castillon, Patay, or Formigny which were disasters for the British. But yeah there's a reasy why for almost 200 years every single war in Europe was based on stopping France from conquering everyone else.

The Battle of France was poor performance on the part of the French, for a variety of reasons. The premier European Army at the time, according to punditry at the time, getting beaten by a numerically inferior opponent in 40ish days is nowhere near the definition of "Good". I respect the fact the French Army found itself it was in a fight it wasn't prepared for, and did the best they could in very difficult circumstances. That's a situation armies have found themselves in repeatedly thru out history. If you honestly believe thats some how diminishing their sacrifice, or somehow insulting those who died, thats a you problem.

@Apelham8 @SandyofCthulhu Présumer ? J'affirme que t'as aucun respect pour les morts en soutenant que leur sacrifice(mai-juin 1940) fut une pauvre performance. On ne parle pas là des politiques, des preparatifs, ou de toutes les decisions des 20ans qui ont précédés. Mais bien de leur combat. Premièrement.

Hence my use of "post 1918"... I've opened plenty of books on this subject. Kier book on doctrine between the wars, philpotts Anglo defense compendium, Posens books on British, German and French doctrines between the wars, and a few others as well. Do you want to quit assuming and start participating or no?

@Apelham8 @SandyofCthulhu Vietnam and afgha We are talking of USA. Not flipflop jiha' oowwww wait. Open a book of history. If you dont understand that you cant judge the 30's without the 20's in mind, i cant do anything for you but to remind you, you are just disrespecting the fallen From worse perspectiv

@virtusnobilitas @SandyofCthulhu We talking about France, not the Poles... What post 1918 decisions do you want to talk about? How both Germany and France looked at what happened in the first world War, and how it influenced their decision making on how to prepare for the next war?

@Apelham8 @SandyofCthulhu + in your hollywood ww2 version Non of you look at any decision from 1918 to 1940. But are trash talking the men who fought in first line against nazis full forces, without hope nor solutions. In a war that you are proud of the defeat of their opponent. Devide & conqueer

@alexthechick If they use all the water, peoples trees might start dying...

Y'all.

@elwheeler2 @Ryanbottomson @Alonso_GD It does. Now, who enforces any violations?

@Ryanbottomson @Alonso_GD

A reminder: if you are a US pilot and you are ordered to nuke a civilian target or bomb a nuclear power plant with the goal of producing a nuclear disaster affecting civilians, you have a legal duty to refuse to comply with such an order

@elwheeler2 @Ryanbottomson @Alonso_GD It does. Now, who enforces any violations?

@Ryanbottomson @Alonso_GD It’s like you didn’t even read us law

@bunch0numbas @johnkonrad How do you say "Rashomon" in Australian?

@johnkonrad Hes not arrested for killing Taliban. He's arrested for killing innocent civilians deliberately and premeditated. He was reported by his fellow soldiers. He specifically being prosecuted because there is evidence he specifically commited the crime. This is very simple stuff.

Something is really bothering me about the Ben Roberts-Smith case. Nobody likes being a hypocrite. Unlike most, I actually go for a walk when I suspect myself of being one. On one hand, this prosecution stinks of liberal bias. Out of thousands of potential war crimes cases the social justice warrior police chief could have pursued, she picked THE most decorated soldier on the entire continent. That isn’t justice. That’s a public humiliation ritual. On the other hand, I do believe actual war criminals should stand trial regardless of rank or honors. And I know what’s coming: “John, Roberts-Smith already lost the 2023 defamation case. Justice Besanko found he committed the murders.” Yes. On the balance of probabilities. 51 percent. That’s the civil standard. Criminal conviction requires 99 percent. The same fragile evidence that barely cleared a coin flip is now supposed to send a man to prison for life. Here’s why my post is not hypocrisy. When the school got hit in Iran weeks ago, I said mistakes aren’t war crimes, but if it was intentional or grossly negligent, someone should be court-martialed. That strike is recent. Physical. Investigable. The Roberts-Smith allegations are 20 years old. And here’s what the Brereton Inquiry, for all its 510 witnesses & four years of work, could never get: No crime scene access. The Taliban didn’t let investigators into Uruzgan. No Afghan witnesses interviewed. No secured scene. No blood-spatter analysis. No DNA No autopsies. No recovered bodies. No weapons tied to victims. The investigators themselves admitted they “lacked access to Afghan crime scenes and were missing the physical evidence that would normally anchor a murder prosecution.” So what’s left? Memory. Twenty-year-old memory from men in the fog of war. The science is unambiguous. Countless research studies confirms memory is reconstructive: later suggestion, media exposure, and repeated questioning distort it. This is the textbook misinformation effect. Confidence and accuracy decouple within months, let alone decades. Studies on soldiers who suffer PTSD show the gaps get even larger. I admittedly don’t know 🇦🇺 law but US courts admit decades-old testimony but warn juries it is inherently fragile, not scientific proof. Australia is treating it as load-bearing concrete. The media says “20 former soldiers testified against him.” Fine. Was all their testimony actually against him? How clear was it? Did 20 people watch him murder a civilian in broad daylight? And even if they did, you still have to prove the dead man wasn’t Taliban. In Uruzgan. In 2009. Without a body. Some will say I’m being pedantic. Yes. I. Am. Because Ben Roberts-Smith was charged with murder, and under war-crimes law the same act can be framed as murder, willful killing, or killing a person hors de combat depending on the framing. How it gets framed sets precedent for every future war. And here’s the question nobody in Canberra wants asked: Why is the trigger-puller in the dock while the officers who wrote the rules of engagement, approved the missions, and signed the after-action reports keep their pensions? The Victoria Cross winner hangs. The chain of command walks. Past “War crime” cases with more hard evidence remain “unsolved” That isn’t accountability. That’s a scapegoat ritual. You do not get a Victoria Cross just for killing. You get it for extraordinary gallantry, valour, self-sacrifice & devotion to duty in the presence of the enemy. And here is what Australia just told every soldier watching: the reward for a VC is fame which will make you a target for future show trials built on 20-year-old memories, prosecuted by a police chief with no combat but more ribbons on her uniform than you. If murder can be proven without hard evidence decades later. That isn’t justice even if he is guilty. Proof of guilt matters. That’s a Marxist humiliation ceremony leading to national strategic disarmament by lawfare.

The Former Yugoslavian states didn't use Nato help? Ukraine wasn't using NATO help? Merchant ships in the Gulf a few years ago weren't using NATO help? France didn't use American help in Africa? Come on now... As I asked before, if the Battle of France wasn't a shameful result, what was it in your opinion?

@Apelham8 @SandyofCthulhu 23k to much for a terrorist action following an inside job, to justify war with real motivation closer from hydrocarbons. USA is the only nation who ever used NATO help. & you trying to change topic. Topic: claim that 1st battle of france is a shame. Look at your military history

France had 23k troops deployed to Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014. They weren't there to play accordians, we're they? As I understand it they did a pretty good job, I know their special forces were very well regarded. The US didn't ask for help, the North Atlantic Council did that on its own initiative. And even then it was Politcally...Unsavory to a few counties. Norway in particular, not sure why. And the US helped France more than a few times. Operation Serval and Barkhane as an example. If US defeats are laughable, French defeats are what?

@Apelham8 @SandyofCthulhu Afgha is your war not ours. We were there only because you called for help. The only nation who ever needed nato help : USA. Lool Indochina is bigger than vietnam and a glorious defeat. Expeditionary corps vs them. Glorious. Your defeats are laughtable. US military history is.

@virtusnobilitas @SandyofCthulhu France was in both of those countries too, weren't they?

@Apelham8 @SandyofCthulhu And any if it is a pride in comparisson to vietnam or afgha by your army. Including first battle of france. So what, are you un civilian individual for your first comment ?

You want a civil conversation be civil. You want to talk about getting surrounded at sedan and surrendering, we can do that calmly. Or how verdun was not as tactically important as it was strategically symbolic. In 1806, Napoleon and the Grand Army were 1940 Germans, and the Prussians were the 1940 French. Superior tactics, superior generalship, better communications...right? You want to talk about the difference between Afghans in flip flops and Algerians in sandals, we can do that too.

@Apelham8 @SandyofCthulhu Oe how fuckinh afga in flipflop defeated you. Basically you did worst at any occasion. So ?

France knew the Germans were going to attack them at some point. Once the battle of France started, it lasted 46 days. Poland was attacked by surprise and lasted 38 days, and the Russians were a more effective second front than the Italians were. There's a lot of reasons why, interwar decision making, things of that nature, and a lot of people tend forget the Free French forces did very well in North Africa and Europe. But when the largest Army in Europe falls to pieces inside of a few weeks, people are going to remember that event than others.

@SandyofCthulhu What poor performances ? Tell us exactly what poor performances you’re talking about, you asshole. You’re the first to spread this shitty bias. Do you have even a shred of respect for the dead ? Then tell the truth. You piece of shit.

@xdNiBoR @PieterHans65288 Pretty sure it's so Germany and Britain have something to fight over on the continent...

@PieterHans65288 Wow calm down mate. It's a great country

Update on this story. Every news outlet in Belgium is reporting on it again now that the fine has been set. Just to recap: Video posted on 3rd of July 2020, complaint in Autumn 2020, video taken offline in February 2021… and Elon only buys Twitter in October 2022! Yet everyone uses Elon’s face and the X logo, without ever mentioning it all happened years before he was involved. Easy way to get clicks, obviously….

@RobertClark62 @YatYas1070 The Brits had a navy back then...

How many Brits have the pennant of the St Louis Cardinals baseball team on their X frontpage? I'm American, born and raised in this country and live in the St Louis, MO metro area - in the fly-over country heartland. To your point, the Brits will give the Argies another beatdown if they're stupid enough to try to take the Falklands by force again. They didn't need us back in '82 and they wouldn't need us tomorrow. The Argentinian military is even worse off than HM Armed Forces at present but the quality of British military personnel remains 1st rate.

If true, this is operationally significant and, IMO, the correct moral stance for a nation that's both a democracy and subject to the rule of law. Both the B-1s and B-52s can rain 1000 lb and 2000 lb JDAMs & hit multiple aim points. And no, I'm not *rooting* for Iran; I just don't want to see America commit wanton war crimes. The British aren't stabbing us in the back; friends don't let friends drive drunk.

@p_danziger @VeryBrexitProbs And the local German economies get about 2 billion back...

@VeryBrexitProbs Each year, Germany contributes roughly €130 million to the upkeep of US military infrastructure within the country.

MAGA calls Europe freeloaders. Here’s what they’re not telling you. ​1. Ramstein Air Base, the most important US military hub outside America, is built on German land provided rent-free, with Germany contributing hundreds of millions to its upkeep. The US couldn’t replace it anywhere in the world. 2. Every US military operation in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia flows through Ramstein. Lose it and US power projection in the Eastern Hemisphere is crippled. 3. The UK provides and maintains RAF Lakenheath used almost entirely by the US Air Force. Italy provides Aviano. Greece provides Souda Bay. Turkey provides Incirlik. European land. European infrastructure. American operations. 4. The US Sixth Fleet depends entirely on European ports for fuel and supplies. Souda Bay, Naples, 11 Greek ports. Without them the Sixth Fleet cannot operate in the Mediterranean or project power into the Middle East. 5. The majority of NATO’s intelligence and surveillance capacity is hosted on European soil and fed directly to the CIA, NSA and Pentagon. 6. Early warning radar at Fylingdales, UK. Missile tracking in Greenland. Norwegian monitoring stations near Russia. All dependent on European goodwill. 7. It would cost America MORE to bring the troops home than keep them here. European hosts subsidise roughly a third of all basing costs. 8. Europe is America’s largest arms customer. Stop buying American and part of their defence industry goes bankrupt. 9. The bases aren’t charity. They’re America using European soil, European money and European goodwill to project power across the world. 10. We’re not the freeloaders.

The US doesn't pay rent for Ramstein, instead there is a burden sharing agreement, where Germany offsets costs. I believe it's the past two decades Germany has spent about €475M euros for things like construction and maintenance. Depending on what's going on around the world, the US DoD spends $3-6 billion on operations, personal and base maintenance across Germany, of which over 1. 2 Billion goes to the local economy. Replacing it would be hard, but not impossible.

@AdamCC92 @SandyofCthulhu The ones you didn't have and needed? Yes, those destroyers.

@SandyofCthulhu You mean the 50 mothballed, out of date destroyers (described by one admiral as the worst ships he had ever seen) which were paid for by Britain handing over its naval bases around the world? Those destroyers?

The US shipped over a billion dollars of aid to the UK and France before Pearl Harbor. In September 1940 we handed over 50 destroyers to Britain to use as escorts vs. German subs. We shipped hundreds of planes to France before it fell, and had arranged for over 2500 more. We shipped fighters to Finland for their Winter War against Hitler's ally, Russia. Then Finland used those planes when Russia switched sides. We shipped goods to Russia after Hitler attacked. Roosevelt made a big deal out of us being the Arsenal of Democracy, so saying "we ignored Europe until Pearl" is not just a lie it is a huge falsehood that flies in the face of facts.